Following Italy's unification in 1861, the nation suffered from a lack of raw materials, economic imbalance between the North and South, the absence of educational systems and the great cost of unification itself.<span> Italy faced these challenges and made great advances over the fifty years that followed.</span>
The Italian Unification also called <em>“Il Risorgimento”</em> was a political movement that united different of the Italian peninsula into a single nation. Despite it, there were still conflicts in the nation. There were still many cultural differences between regions which prompted secession movements that were led mostly by two political parties Lega Nord, in the North and Due Sicilie, in the South.
